Suspension for trolley-wires



(No Model.)

B. P. MORRIS.

SUSPENSION FOR TROLLEY WIRES. No. 428,930. 4 Patented May 27, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELMER P. MORRIS, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

SUSPENSION FOR TROLLEY-WIRES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 428,930, dated May 27,1890.

Application filed January 6, 1890. Serial No. 336,056. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

The casing A takes over and covers the in- Be it known that I, ELMER P.MORRIS, a sulating-spools and takes around the insulatcitizen of theUnited States, residing at Cining-bushing, thus serving to protect thespools cinnati,in the county of Hamilton and State of from rain, sleet,or snow, and avoiding the Ohio, have invented a certain new and usefulimperfect insulation resulting from moist- Improvement in Suspensionsfor Trolleyure or ice. It also serves to support the ear Wires inElectric Roads, of which the follow which carries the trolley-wire. Thelightness ing is a specification. and compactness of construction whichthis My improvement consists in a novel 0011- method of insulatingpermits of is a great ad- [0 struction of such suspensions by whichbetter vantage in the construction of street-railways.

insulation is secured and a considerable por- I claim as my inventiontion of the bulk and weight essential to the 1. The combination, insuspensions for trolsuspensionsheretofore used is dispensed with.ley-lines, of an inclosing-case, a wire-carrying In the drawings, Figure1 is a perspective ear suspended therefrom, and insulating- 15 view ofone of my improved suspensions; Fig. spools mounted in theinclosing-case, substan- 2, a cross-section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1;Fig. tially as and for the purposes specified. 3, a section on the line1 1 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 2. The combination, in suspensions fortrol- 4 aview showing two of my suspensions in Icy-lines, of an inclosing-case,an insulated position upon the trolley-wires. wire-carrying earsuspendedtherefrom, and- 20 A represents a roof or casing, preferably ofinsulating-spools mounted in the inclosingmet-a1; B B,insulating-spools, which may be case, substantially as and for thepurposes of any suitable non-conducting material; C O, specified.suspension-wires for the hangers, secured to the insulating-spools; D,an insulating-cap; ELMER P. MORRIS.

z 5 E, an insulating-bushing; F, an insulating- Washer, and Gr a bolttaking through the cas- WVitnesses:

ing A, bushing E, and washer F, and into a JAMES N. RAMSEY,wire-carrying ear H. The cap, bushing, and AUGUST F. HEIBSLEB. ear areof the usual construction.

